The prevalence of infectious diseases in the aquaculture industry requires a multi-pronged approach to control; the experts agree there is no one silver bullet in terms of managing health and welfare in fish and shrimp farming.
A University of Saskatchewan (USask) research team is partnering with a raft of industry groups to set up a facility on campus to develop and test plant- and insect-derived proteins to replace the fishmeal in feed for aquaculture.
European based ingredient and technology suppliers, feed formulation experts and farmers have collaborated on the development and launch of a new shrimp feed.
An aquaculture start-up is working with Farm491, an agritech hub based at the UK’s Royal Agricultural University, to create the largest land-based production facility for shrimp in the UK.
Cargill is continuing its alliance with The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute on the development and of feeds for the growing land-based aquaculture industry.
Mosa Meat, the company behind the world’s first cultivated beef hamburger, a feat it realized in 2013, announced the third and last closing of its Series B funding yesterday [February 23].
Dutch animal nutrition and feed group, Nutreco, has completed further investment in Nordic Aqua Partners (NAP), which will build China’s first fully integrated and commercially viable recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility.
KnipBio reports that fish fed a diet containing 5% of its KnipBio Meal (KBM) – a single cell protein - had significantly lower levels of geosmin and methylisoborneol (MIB), the compounds responsible for creating off-flavors in RAS-raised fish.
Dutch animal nutrition and feed group, Nutreco, has announced an investment in Kingfish Zeeland, a company, established in the Dutch province of Zeeland in 2015, which is producing yellowtail kingfish through a proprietary recirculating aquaculture system...
US not for profit group, the Nature Conservancy (TNC), and New York based impact investment firm, Encourage Capital, have released a guide to impact investing in sustainable aquaculture.
Niels Alsted has just retired from Danish fish feed manufacturer, BioMar. In total, he spent 45 years in the aquaculture sector. He talked FeedNavigator through his career, which started in 1974 on a small trout farm in Denmark.
Skretting, a pioneer in diets specifically designed for recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), has upgraded its integrated feed concept for the closed containment farmed fish production method.
